LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2023

Enjoy the 2023 Christmas collection, with selections chosen by many volunteers. This year's readings include a combination of sacred and secular; joyful, poignant, and creepy; prose, poetry, and a musical play. You are sure to find something to raise your Christmas spirits! - Summary by TriciaG and Devorah Allen

This collection contains:
The Angel's Message to Mary by Charles Simeon Read by InTheDesert
A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy Read by Alan Mapstone
Carol by William Canton Read by Norah Nelson
Christbaum by Rudolf Baumbach Read by lorda
Christmas by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano
A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti Read by Norah Nelson
Christmas Eve by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano
Christmas Eve by Peter Rosegger Read by Brian Fullen
Christmas Folksong by Lizette Woodworth Reese Read by mleigh
The Christmas Ghost: Unemployment in One of our Oldest Industries by Stephen Leacock Read by TriciaG
A Christmas Hymn, 1837 by Alfred Domett Read by David Lawrence
A Christmas Letter by Stephen Leacock Read by Tomas Peter
Christmas When the West Was Young: Stories of Far Western Christmas Days of Pioneer Times by William R. Lighton Read by Andrea Kotzer
Cradle Hymn by Martin Luther Read by mleigh
A Dark Evening by Pansy Read by TriciaG
Darling by Unknown Read by KevinS
The Epiphany by Charles Williams Read by Alan Mapstone
Father Christmas at Home by Mabel Henrietta Spielmann Read by Stacey Malcolm
The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by BigManDan
The House of Christmas by G. K. Chesterton Read by Devorah Allen
How to Wrap Christmas Parcels by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Read by Tomas Peter
Jack's Christmas by Emma K. Parrish Read by Garth Burton
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Read by helensears
My Christmas Burglary by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Read by David Wales
Noël by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Read by Sonia
Old Hooker's Ghost; or, Christmas Gambols at Huntingfield Hall by Anonymous Read by Ben Tucker
Polly: A Before-Christmas Story by Hope Ledyard Read by Garth Burton
Popgun Plays Santa Claus by Will C. Barnes Read by Brian Fullen
The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Devorah Allen
'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore Read by paxboltoni
Two Christmas Eves by Patricia Wentworth Read by Beeswaxcandle
The White Christmas by Walter Ben Hare Read by Group of LibriVox Volunteers

Cast list for The White Christmas:
Mary and Voice of Angel: Jenn Broda
Joseph: David Purdy
Simeon: Alan Mapstone
Timothy: Larry Wilson
Isaac, Melchoir and Narrator: Brian Fullen
Anna: Lynette Caulkins
Thomas: redrun
Ruth: Norah Nelson
Deborah: Agnes Robert Behr
Rachel: Nicole Wright
Gaspar: TriciaG
Baltasar: Texasbookworm42
Prologue and keyboardist: Beeswaxcandle
Volcalists: TriciaG, Nicole Wright, dc, Verla Viera, Norah Nelson, Alan Mapstone, Amy Gramour, Brian Fullen